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CASE FILE No.018 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
MURDER IN THE FOG
The fog hid everything that night. Including who put a knife in the moneylender.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Geoffrey Sallow, a moneylender, was found knifed in Pickle Court off the embankment on the worst fog of the winter. The river fog lay so thick that the constable could not see the water from the rail, the gas lamps hung as dim haloes, and no man could make out a face at ten paces. Sallow's pocketbook was gone. His killer came and went unseen in the murk — which is also why any witness who claims to have watched someone clearly across that distance cannot be believed. Five persons give statements for the hours around the murder. One of them sees far too much.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— H.D.— Harry Doyle
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— S.P.— Sam Pratt
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— V.L.— Victor Lyle
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— N.W.— Nan Webb
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— A.Q.— Albert Quinn
A revealed letter files the case as assisted.
The Bureau notes every assist.
Reveal a letter?
A pulled lead files the case as assisted.
LEAD No.1
THE SETTLED FACT
Who's lying?
Four stories hold. One won't. Name the liar.
One verdict. The case locks for the day.
You file one verdict.
The Bureau does not reopen the case. Sign off against —?
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